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skippercollector

(206 posts)
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 11:51 AM Nov 2016

I love DST

I don't know where else to put this. Unlike so many others, I love Daylight Saving Time. Why? Because as someone who has both poor night vision and Seasonal Affective Disorder, and as someone who doesn't like to get up early, I NEED light in the evening! Once the change is made back to Standard Time, I start counting the days until the switch again.
Oh, and adjusting clocks and watches has never bothered me.

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I love DST (Original Post) skippercollector Nov 2016 OP
Glad you love it. When I was working, I HATED it. Siwsan Nov 2016 #3
I would like to see year round DST Travis_0004 Nov 2016 #4
Hear, hear! Warpy Nov 2016 #5
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Siwsan

(26,257 posts)
3. Glad you love it. When I was working, I HATED it.
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 12:02 PM
Nov 2016

I have trouble driving in the dark, so it affect me in the mornings. And since I had early work hours, I also had early get to bed hours, so it affected me then, too.

Now I find it easier to adjust to, but still annoying because I hate having to run around the house, changing clocks.

Warpy

(111,237 posts)
5. Hear, hear!
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 03:42 PM
Nov 2016

GMT and the resultant time zones are utterly arbitrary, devised by a bunch of seafaring colonialists hundreds of years ago to aid navigation as they looked for more brown people to plunder. THEIR WAY DOES NOT WORK for those of us who are now tyrannized by the clock, especially those of us with night vision and other issues.

KILL STANDARD TIME! KILL IT DEAD! DST FOREVER!

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